Mike GLC Has Something To Say

When Tulisa Contostavlos's cocaine trial imploded on a technicality last month, the former N-Dubz singer must have felt the sweetest relief of her life. And while the case is likely to hang over whatever career she has left, it's looking like she can put the whole sorry affair behind her. She will be painted as the victim of the "fake sheikh" Sun reporter Mazher Mahmood's unscrupulous pursuit of a scoop.

This is fair. While Mahmood's deception has uncovered match-fixing and corruption in the past, going after Tulisa was totally without merit. All it really served to show was pop stars have access to cocaine, a drug that proliferates the media and, at some point or another, many a news desk. Wheedling a celebrity into a drug deal that you yourself instigated is desperate, if not unexpected from the Sun given its history of disseminating poison. It may sell papers, but it's not of genuine public interest (it's hard to see how a court could back a public interest defence on Mahmood's part if he'd libelled Contostavlos, for instance). Not to mention the fact that Mahmood lied under oath.

But while Tulisa will walk away from this as the silly little girl who should have known better, Michael Coombs, the supplier implicated in the sting, has found himself in a very different position.

Prior to this story the rapper known as Mike GLC was anonymous to middle England. Now he will be the villain who led an impressionable young lady astray. The bad crowd that she has now cut loose on the way to responsible womanhood.

Yes, Mike GLC allegedly attempted to supply cocaine and, yes, the evidence is incriminating. But without Tulisa's involvement there is no story here for the papers. Now she can look ahead, and is even thought to be preparing a civil case against Mahmood.

Mike GLC is not so fortunate and, unsurprisingly, is attempting to speak up. Taking to twitter to vent his frustrations, the rapper claims he has repeatedly approached the media to give his version of events, only to be shut down by Contostavlos's legal team at every turn. He's the fall guy. The bogeyman who conveniently matches the drug dealer photofit and who can be lumped with the blame and shame.

There's a cruel injustice to this. It's a case of those on top buying their way back into favour and leaving the rest to burn. If Mike is allowed to say his piece, it could well threaten Tulisa's future. She can afford lawyers to suppress his story and control the public narrative. But what part of the story is missing? At the very least we should be able to hear what he has to say.

what should i do ? they set me up to go prison said im a drug dealer.. happily watched me lose everything filmed a documentary behind....
— Mike GLC (@mikeglc) August 24, 2014

... my back and never even attempted to clear my name infact made it worse.... have not received even a phone call since the case...
— Mike GLC (@mikeglc) August 24, 2014

and now threaten to sue me for speaking out, the legal team she paid advised me go guilty but yet she dident who made what phone calls ?
— Mike GLC (@mikeglc) August 24, 2014

and the only reason the truth did not come out is because the case collapses on a technical not because shes won... in a nutshell...
— Mike GLC (@mikeglc) August 24, 2014

iv been setup.. iv stayed quiet for over a year for the good of the case but now im at my last straw i need to clear my name and rebuild....
— Mike GLC (@mikeglc) August 24, 2014

... my life too... now its my crusade to do so watch this space.... and all those who think this is a publicity stunt you have no idea...
— Mike GLC (@mikeglc) August 24, 2014

im been more than loyal and tried to deal with this in the best way i could but her and my legal made me the scapegoat and now threaten me.
— Mike GLC (@mikeglc) August 24, 2014

so i beg one thing from the public... demand the truth i admitted mine ask her for hers.. the full truth... i allowed her her career back...
— Mike GLC (@mikeglc) August 24, 2014

the truth never changes ... but a lie changs a million time my truth has never changed ask her hers... she is a evil little girl
— Mike GLC (@mikeglc) August 24, 2014

that thinks that her legal team can keep threatening me i had enuff now DEMAND THE TRUTH, forget the documentary its lies and fabrication
— Mike GLC (@mikeglc) August 24, 2014

ill be waiting on a call from her lawyers today im sure, i dont know what she thinks but why would i care about legal action....
— Mike GLC (@mikeglc) August 24, 2014

i was prepared to go jail for something you did. so what does that tell you. i need the publics help retweet ask qustion, but seek the truth
— Mike GLC (@mikeglc) August 24, 2014

I REALLY DID NOT WANT IT TO COME TO THIS,,, but when i'm finally allowed to tell the truth, it will rock the world. what they have done...
— Mike GLC (@mikeglc) August 24, 2014